The Carnegie Institution for Science
published Monday a study showing that Peru’s indigenous people living in
the Madre de Dios region have the highest traces of mercury
contamination among any other group.
About 76.5 percent of the people living in the region, both rural
and urban areas, were found to have mercury levels more than five times
the maximum acceptable levels and 2.3 times greater than those in
non-indigenous communities, the report showed.
Moreover, the indigenous children had three times more mercury in their bodies than children from non-native communities.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/09/10/323111/peru-gold-mining-poisons-natives-study/
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